One last snippet, our Erik in his keynote yesterday ponted out that iPlayer is currently delivering 23 diferent formats for diferent devices! 23! It's actually a real challenge to get all of those done and it's expensive too, and I think he'd be keen for a greater standardisation in viewing platforms and codecs- wouldn't we all!
If you've got ideas and suggestions for improvement, or any further questions, I'd be happy to pass them along to the team. The BBC Internet Blog had an iPlayer day back in April with loads of posts, and updates do appear occasionally: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/iplayer/. We could ask if a more technical article could appear running through the production chains, or we could even see if a more detailed technical post could appear on the forthcoming BBC Research & Development blog! (to be honest R&D is engaged with only a few iPlayer elements- might be cheeeky to ask them to write up for us!). ant p.s. Erik Hugger's keynote at IBC was really interesting, Roo's already tweeted about the announcement of OpeniPlayer, but the speech had a lot in it worth looking at: http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2009/09/11/bbc-to-open-iplayer-to-third-parties-ibc09/ On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Frankie Roberto <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ant, > > Thanks for the update. I'm not sure I 100% follow, but it's good to know > that this kind of stuff is being thought about and constantly improved upon > at the BBC. > > It's amazing how BBC iPlayer has become so well known and so > taken-for-granted now, that I feel compelled to complain about it not being > considered from script stage onwards... :-) > > Next I'll be suggesting that directors cut down on fast pans and > low-contrast shots, in order to minimise compression-related problems... > (although these affect DTV too) > > Frankie > > 2009/9/10 Ant Miller <[email protected]> >> >> Ok, so some of you have noticed iPlayer for the iPhone is a bit >> different- this 'I think' is via an Off Air system (or was at one >> point). Radio has a system called Coyopa that takes original content >> from the networks between the studios and final terestrial and digital >> playout, but is part ofthe same chain. Most iPlayer stuff I think >> comes from the same chain as playout, but not the very end. Basically >> very very little is ingested seperately from the normal playout, but >> the point of 'branching' varies from network to network, and between >> the versions of iPlayer. >> >> Complicated, but we do our best. And importantly it's ALWAYS evolving. >> Sometims I wish it did so a bit more publicly. >> >> a >> >> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Phil Lewis <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 17:48 +0100, Frankie Roberto wrote: >> > snip... >> >> you could even do things like cut down the amount of "trailing ahead" >> >> - which surely is less required on iPlayer where people have chosen to >> >> watch something specific and are in less danger of changing channel... >> >> (You could probably shave a good few minutes off from Dragons Den in >> >> this way, which trails ahead constantly in a really annoying way). >> > >> > Surely a bad idea, that would just make the 'BBC News at Six' just 10 >> > minutes long ;-) >> > >> > >> > >> > - >> > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, >> > please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. >> > Unofficial list archive: >> > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Ant Miller >> >> tel: 07709 265961 >> email: [email protected] >> >> - >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please >> visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. >> Unofficial list archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > -- > Frankie Roberto > Experience Designer, Rattle > 0114 2706977 > http://www.rattlecentral.com > > -- Ant Miller tel: 07709 265961 email: [email protected] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
